quotes and questions

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc 
<pengolodh_sc at y...>" <pengolodh_sc at y...> wrote:
> It could be worse, of course - here in Norway, smalehove is 
> considered a quite acceptable food in large parts of the country, 
as 
> are codfish-tongues (normally fried, but I have heard of at least 
one 
> instance where they were cooked with cabbage - the dinner-guests 
did 
> escape alive and with their sanity reasonable intact, although 
> reports were that the tongues were more comparable to fishy chewing-
> gum than anything else).
> 

And here in southcentral Wisconsin, the Norwegian forbears saddled 
their descendants with "delicacies" known as lutefisk (cod fish 
soaked in lye, rinsed off and then dried, I think) and lefse (a kind 
of Norwegian tortilla made of potato flour(?)). As one young 
Minnesota woman told Garrison Keillor a few years ago, "I used to 
hate lutefisk when I was young, but now I can eat a whole 
tablespoonful" -- which is a tablespoonful more than I'd be willing 
to eat.

Going back to the list of foods Harry likes, I assume that in PS 
(British version vs. American SS), the sausages and mashed potatoes 
are called bangers and mash.

Anne U
(who likes bangers and mash, and Brit-style fried tomatoes, but won't 
go near lutefisk with a 10-foot pole)